Is this comedian is a greater source of (true) information than news channels?
Matt Emerson
Matt Emerson is the author of Why Faith? A Journey of Discovery (Paulist Press, 2016). His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including America and The Wall Street Journal.
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Not Dark to Thee
In early March Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 plunged into the ocean with 239 people aboard On April 9 16-year-old Alex Hribal injured 21 people during a stabbing rampage at his Pennsylvania High School On April 16 the terrorist group Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 girls as part of an escalating c
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Stanford Over Harvard?
The New York Times wonders Has Stanford replaced Harvard as the most acclaimed school in the country According to the Times Stanford University has become America rsquo s ldquo it rdquo school by measures that Harvard once dominated Stanford has had the nation rsquo s lowest undergraduate acce
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Summer Reading: Part I
Just in time for June a number of outlets and authors are offering suggestions for summer reading Even J P Morgan has a few ideas Click on the following links to review the titles For my next post on summer reading I 39 ll feature some Catholic and spiritual selections The Boston GlobeThe Los
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Dr. Kenneth Miller and the Faith of Science
With so many commencement addresses each year it 39 s easy to miss the less publicized but equally important honors given to those who are not keynote speakers One of the most important of such honors among Catholic schools is the University of Notre Dame 39 s Laetare Medal According to the Univ
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Admiral McRaven’s Outstanding Commencement Address
Though I haven 39 t read through or listened to all the commencement speeches from the last couple weeks I don 39 t imagine there 39 s a better one than that delivered by Admiral William H McRaven a Navy Seal and commander of U S Special Operations Command In his recent address at the Univer
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In Praise of ‘Field of Dreams’
In the modern world it 39 s never easy finding the right way to frame spiritual themes particularly for skeptical audiences like young men and women in high school Classic religious or spiritual documents — whether the New Testament or the works of St Augustine — simply don 39 t capture them
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A Framework for Communal Discernment
For students, responding to God’s will need not be an exercise in spiritual isolation.
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The Difficult Matter of Adam and Eve
The historicity of the first couple is an ideal topic for an ambitious graduate student, not to mention a new encyclical.
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The “Grad at Grad” and Jesuit Schools
Today was awards day the day that my school — Xavier College Preparatory High School in Palm Desert CA — honors our students based on the criteria of the Graduate at Graduation or as Jesuit faculty call it the quot Grad at Grad quot nbsp I don 39 t think many readers know about these crit